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Be One With Flappy Bird: The Science of ‘flow’ in Game Design – CNET

Be one with Flappy Bird: The science of ‘flow’ in game design – CNET


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Be one with Flappy Bird: The science of 'flow' in game design
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Facebook and Instragram were awash in high score screenshots and admissions of addiction-fueled guilt while all of Twitter might as well have been Flappy Bird references with some news and global chatter sandwiched in between. It also happens to be
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Renaissance Nutrition in East Norriton a haven for those with eating disorders – Montgomery Newspapers

Renaissance Nutrition in East Norriton a haven for those with eating disorders
Montgomery Newspapers
Scientists don't even understand 100 percent what happens in the chrysalis.” For more than 20 years, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics and binge eaters have found Renaissance Nutrition Center to be a safe haven, where they can come

Cure for Love: Should We Take Anti-Love Drugs?

Cure for love: Should we take anti-love drugs?
Recent brain studies show extensive parallels between the effects of certain addictive drugs and experiences of being in love. … If I get out of a bad relationship, maybe I need to reflect on what happened, not pop a pill so I can rush into a new …
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2014 Outlook: Expect CMS MA Regulatory Focus To Include HRAs, Drug Access
At the top of the list, they suggest, are regulatory initiatives related to MA plans' use of health risk assessments (HRAs) for diagnosis purposes and patient access to prescription drugs. Also looming on the regulatory horizon is the possible start of …
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Heroin Scourge Cuts Across Cultural and Economic Barriers – ABQ Journal

Heroin scourge cuts across cultural and economic barriers – ABQ Journal

Heroin scourge cuts across cultural and economic barriers
ABQ Journal
“It's really unfortunate that someone has to die in order for the issue of heroin addiction to come to the surface again, but that's just the way our society works,” she said. “Something tragic has to happen before change happens. Unfortunately, when

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BHR in midst of dire financial test – The Olympian

BHR in midst of dire financial test
The Olympian
BHR, based in Thurston County, is a multi-county provider of mental health and addiction recovery services. “We have so little control over what happens with our clients and whether they show up or not,” said Gray, part of the union's bargaining team.

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Feb. 14: No Brain Is an Island, and Other Letters to the Editor

Feb. 14: No brain is an island, and other letters to the editor
Margaret Wente has ventured into the hornet's nest of trying to understand addiction as either a medical condition or a moral weakness (Philip Seymour Hoffman Had A Habit, Not A Disease – Feb. 13). The psychiatric community itself is split. Witness the …
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Spreading awareness against drug abuse
Cocaine, opiates, marijuana and alcohol all produce transient euphoric effects partly because they promote the release of Dopamine. Addiction is not a disease that compels one to use drugs. Undoubtedly, addiction to drugs is a result of wilful misconduct.
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Porn 'Addiction' Is Made Up
Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure." Yet even they don't include pornography addiction because it …
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Lynne Curry: Gambling in the Office Is Usually a Bad Bet – Anchorage Daily News

Lynne Curry: Gambling in the office is usually a bad bet – Anchorage Daily News

Lynne Curry: Gambling in the office is usually a bad bet
Anchorage Daily News
Occasionally, a reformed gambler winds up having his past addiction re-ignited, leading to a downward spiral that may be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act as Amended. Here's what employers need to realize. Employees who want to gamble

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On Marriage and Meth: After decades of use, Twin Falls couple finds clarity – Twin Falls Times-News

On Marriage and Meth: After decades of use, Twin Falls couple finds clarity
Twin Falls Times-News
Sure, Beverly and Tim Wood met in church, went to the movies, fell in love and married. But between the rosy highlights lurked remnants of methamphetamine addiction from which they were trying to escape. Neither had ever been in a sober relationship

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A Good Bad Example
With each new repeat of the same story line, we are lectured about the absolute loss of choice and control that the “disease,” called addiction, yields. Experts tell us of the provable physiological changes in the brain of an addict. The layman can …
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Everyone deserves help after bad choices
Daniel D. Alman's Jan. 30 letter (“Blame Drug Users”) reflects a public attitude toward addiction disease: It does not qualify as a public health or medical issue because an addicted person chooses to use drugs. Individual choice certainly does enter …
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